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The Alpha 'Do you believe in God?' vote

06/11/2009 15:00:00

This is, of course, news from weeks ago, but I'm claiming being on holiday as my 'get out of blogging late' card. The above poll was posted on the Alpha course website, but one imagines that the result was not the one that Alpha was hoping for. See The Alpha Course - Explore the meaning of life | Alpha UK for the original poll.

In-depth analysis from someone who sounds like they know what they are talking about: Hard lessons in social media: Online polls

Report in the Sun about the whole saga: There’s no God say 96% in web poll 'sting' | The Sun |News

Comment from George Pitcher, who makes the useful point that people who have the time to click repeatedly on online polls probably need something more to do in their lives: Sad atheists try to vote God out of power

Example of a website encouraging repeat 'no' votes: How about making it look even worse?

...and on the subject of rigged votes: Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley: Moon Gibbon Poll

I'm very surprised that Alpha haven't re-set the poll and started again.

David Keen | 07/11/2009 22:34:07

You missed the Pharyngula post which drove most of it.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/10/alpha_pollalready_demolished.php

Matt Wardman | 09/11/2009 11:31:32

Matt - I did include that link - How about making it look even worse?

Dave Walker | 09/11/2009 15:33:58

How dare atheists respond to Christian evangelical outreach programs?

Can't these people get a life, rather than respond when Christians run programs to reach out to them?

Steven Carr | 14/11/2009 05:15:19